(February 18, 2015 at 8:59 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote:(February 18, 2015 at 6:02 pm)ether-ore Wrote: For me, I happen to believe the eye witness accounts of prophets who over the millennia have reported the same story and have consistently and coherently recorded it in scripture. So, there is no doubt but that you will consider God to be subjective; But, since I believe these reports of the prophets to be true, then for me God is an objective truth.
Except that those accounts don't all agree with each other, and the have no serious historical support.
That strikes me as a matter of interpretation. I believe one would have to understand the overall message and what God's methods and purposes were before one could make such a determination. If you don't believe God exists, how could you come to a fair conclusion as to what His methods and purposes were?
Historical support would not deal with metaphysical or moral issues. History can only hope to provide information on events and locations; it really cannot make positively accurate claims about 'why'. For example, archeologists have made claims based on what they found in the ground (and I'm not talking about written records). They make educated guesses as to what things like pottery shards and figurines mean. But that is all they are... guesses. It is pure supposition.